A nationwide poll of 600 young people aged 15-21 poll has found thatthey hold conservative values on sex issues – which are significantlysimilar to the views of parents.

SEX EDUCATIONWhen asked "Do you think sex education in schools should teach values,abstinence and consequences such as pregnancy, or just teach safesex?" only 19% supported just the 'safe sex' message currently beingtaught in schools, with one in three (34%) wanting 'values,abstinence, and consequences such as pregnancy' taught instead, and afurther 42% asking for a combination of both – especially amongstolder teens. The support for just the 'safe sex' message dropped evenlower for the older teens.

"This is a direct rebuke from young people to the 'use a condom' and'everyone's doing it' messages being pushed by groups like FamilyPlanning, AIDS Foundation and Rainbow Youth," says Bob McCoskrie,National Director of Family First NZ.

"Many parents were rightly horrified last year when details of whatwas being taught in schools under the guise of 'sex education'surfaced. Judging by the results of the current approach – which is agood place to start – sex education has been an utter failure. NewZealand has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the OECD,our STD rates are out of control and the number of teenage girlshaving abortions continues to rise."

"For those youth who are sexually active, they are not being told thetruth. Groups like the Family Planning Association and the AIDSFoundation are perpetuating the myth that as long as you use a condom,you can pretty well do what you like in terms of promiscuity,experimentation, and fringe behaviours – with little or no informationon the physical or emotional ramifications or prevention of disease."

In one example, a mixed class of boys and girls were asked by the AIDSFoundation if they had masturbated lately and were given condoms andstrawberry-flavoured lubricant. They were also given a leafletfeaturing graphic pictures, terms including "c*ck" and "w*nk", andadvice on the best condoms. Reports last year highlighted thatchildren as young as 12 are being taught about oral sex and told it'sacceptable to play with a girl's private parts as long as "she's okaywith it". In other cases, 14-year-old girls are being taught how toput condoms on plastic penises, and one female teacher imitated thenoises she made during org*sm to her class of 15-year-olds. Oneconcerned father took his 12-year-old son out of a sex education classat his all-boy school after he came home upset about what had happenedduring one of the lessons. It included a question-and-answer sessionthat focused on, "I have learned that my girlfriend has a thing calleda clit*ris. I really want to play with it. Is that okay?" The answerwas: "Yes, if you ask her and she's okay with it."

A poll of parents in 2010 found that three out of four parents ofyoung children want the abstinence message taught in sex education –with 69% of kiwis overall supporting the 'wait' message.

PARENTAL NOTIFICATIONWhen asked "Provided it won't put the girl in physical danger, shouldparents be told if their school-age daughter is pregnant andconsidering getting an abortion?" 59% of young respondents thought theparents should be told. 34% disagreed. More young men than womenagreed, but both had majority agreement.

"It is significant that even young people can see the importance ofhaving parents informed and involved, even when they know that thosesame parents will be rightly disappointed and upset. This is a verystrong response from young people, and is a rebuke to the politiciansin 2004 who chose to exclude parents from this process when debatingthe provision in the Care of Children Bill," says Mr McCoskrie.

According to the Care of Children Act 2004, access to abortion is notrestricted on grounds of age. Section 38 of the Act says that a girlof any age can give consent to an abortion and that consent operatesas if it were given by her parents. Therefore, her parents need neverknow that their daughter is having such a procedure. Family First isaware of young girls being written to directly asking them to make anappointment to have the Gardasil vaccine.

"This all effectively means that while a parent has to sign a letterfor their daughter to go on a school trip to the zoo or to play in thenetball team, they are totally excluded from any knowledge or grantingof permission for that same child to be put on the pill, have avaccine, or have a surgical abortion," says Mr McCoskrie.

When parents were asked a similar question in a 2010 poll, 79%responded yes – only 12% said no.

Family First is asking for the law to be amended to allow for parentalnotification in all cases of medical advice, prescriptions andprocedures unless it can be proved to a family court that it wouldplace the child at extreme risk.

"Parental notification laws in Texas, Michigan, Minnesota, and otherUS states have seen a drop in both the pregnancy rate and the teenabortion rate – a win-win situation for all concerned. This isespecially relevant when almost 80 teenagers a week have an abortionin NZ," says Mr McCoskrie.

UNBORN CHILD'S RIGHT TO LIFEWhen asked "Do you believe an unborn child or foetus has a right to beborn?" 56% of youth respondents said they believed an unborn child orfoetus has a right to be born. Slightly more young women than youngmen agreed – 58% to 55%. Those aged 15 to 17 were strongest in support– 66%.

"This is a pleasantly pro-life view from our young people. A decisionfrom the Court of Appeal last June that the law does not recognize orconfer a right to life on the unborn child sends a dangerous message,and should make NZ'ers feel very queasy," says Mr McCoskrie.

"The message that an unborn child has absolutely no rights iscompletely inconsistent with warning messages about prenatal alcoholand drug use, recognising the unborn child as a victim with respect toviolent crimes on pregnant women, and even the report released by SirPeter Gluckman referring to 'environmental risks that occurprenatally'.

"On the one hand we are imploring pregnant women to live a healthylifestyle to enhance the wellbeing of their unborn child, yet on theother hand the courts are telling us that the child has no right tolife. That's a contradictory message that shows a complete disregardfor the most vulnerable. Just when does a child obtain the right tolive? 30 weeks? 40 weeks? In the birthing room? At the first Plunketvisit?" asks Mr McCoskrie.

Family First is calling for a law change that gives an unborn childthe same human rights as any other human being.

"Teenagers are right to say that we should not allow discriminationagainst our most vulnerable."

The Curia Market Research poll surveyed 600 15-21 year oldsnationwide. The poll was conducted between 4 and 6 December 2011 andhas a margin of error of +/- 4.1%.ENDS

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Drug addiction has made steady inroads in our community by erodingalmost all segments of society. This monster is playing with the livesof our populace and has snuffed out many happy lives without anyremorse.

Afghanistan is acknowledged to be the largest producer of opium in theworld. On the other hand, our areas of FATA, KPK, and Balochistan arenot far behind in the cultivation of narcotics. Many families thriveon this business for the sake of their survival. Nonetheless, today'sPakistan has been declared a poppy-free country by the UN.

According to a UN report, cannabis is widely cultivated and is cheaplyand easily available. Pakistan being the primary conduit for drugtrafficking from Afghanistan has become primary victim of itsadversity. Even though, the price of opium has been increasing worldover; unfortunately, in Pakistan there are more than 628,000 opiateusers and out of which almost 500,000(77%) are heroin addicts.

The number of injecting drug users (IDUs) is exploding at phenomenalproportions and is the main cause of the HIV/AIDS transmission.Another report reveals that majority of opiate users were heroinaddicts and the remaining were addicted to opium, hashish, andsynthetic substances.

A survey of drug users showed that around eight percent were diagnosedwith HIV, 19% with tuberculosis and almost 11% with Hepatitis.Majority of these addicts ranged in between age of 16 to 30 years,with a smaller minority ranging in between 31 to 40 years and beyond.

Drug trafficking also identifies with gun and human smuggling throughcross-border infiltration by the militants. Through the porous Afghanborder, these drugs cross into the Iran, Pakistan, and Central AsianStates. Modus operandi adopted by the drug smugglers to traffic drugsinternationally includes smuggling by foot, roads, rails, and air.

Pakistan being the key transit hub for Afghan drugs has beeninvoluntarily implicated in the unwanted trade. This is a billiondollars swap which is a flourishing business for drug mafias andmilitants. Approximately 65,000 cultivators belonging to extremistdrug syndicates cultivate enough drugs in Helmand to procure drugs for1500 paddlers which is enough to create a substantial black marketeconomy. The drug trade not only challenges state's writ but alsoplays a major role in strengthen links between drug traffickers,Taliban insurgents and criminals.

The book titled 'Narco Jihad' by Ehsan Ahrari posits that "a Narcojihad is being funded by the opium related systems of trade innarcotics in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Terrorist groups and trans-national drug and crime syndicates are involved in protection, pricecontrol, and distribution of opium to regional and global markets".The whole game is managed by the "iron triangle" of corrupt officials,the militants, and the warlords.

We have been unconsciously living with this menace without realisingits true horrors. We need diversification in our eradication effortspertaining to drug trafficking. These efforts include sealing theborder, denying the militants safe havens, and educating our publicabout this peril. We also need to follow the money trail to cut thefunding which supports these nefarious activities.

To achieve this, all involved agencies have to be vigilant and thegovernment needs to introduce a new task force which will have thecapacity and capability to deal specifically with money trail which isthe life line for these despicable organisations. Economic growth andimprovement in law and order will jump start fragile economies ofPakistan and Afghanistan which will alleviate poverty by new jobcreations, eventually, cleansing our societies from this nuisance.

Government of Pakistan is utilising its limited resources to theirfullest extent. However, to control the dispersion of psychotropicbenzodiazepines, we need to adopt a new prescription drug policy whichwill have sufficient safeguards to enforce the flow of these drugs.There is a need to identify the criminals through surveillance andclose monitoring.

Pakistan and India have signed an MOU to enhance the cooperationbetween these two countries which will help stem the flow ofnarcotics. It is moral obligation for our policy makers and civilsociety to educate our society about nuances of drug use so we caneradicate this sinister phenomenon. We can't resolve these problems onthe fly. The task at hand is hard but as a nation we have the abilityand perseverance to exterminate this malignant cancer from our societyat large.

BRIG (Retd) NAZIR SHAMS

Lahore

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The Fellowship Programme for People of African Descent providesparticipants with an intensive learning opportunity to deepen theirunderstanding of the United Nations human rights system, instrumentsand mechanisms, with a focus on issues of particular relevance topeople of African descent. The Programme will allow the participantsto better contribute to the protection and promotion of civil,political, economic, social and cultural rights of Afro-descendants intheir respective countries.

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Kenyan girls sip sweet freedom after escape of early marriages

NARIOBI, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- At the tender age of 12, Rachel Naitoi woke up to a devastating reality. Her fears of early marriage, which had sent her into shivers, were being confirmed.

Her father had found her a husband.

The 47-year-old man supposedly her husband to be, had come to their home for the final bride price negotiations. As she puts it, her dream of one day becoming an accountant was shattered.

A last born child in her family, Naitoi lost her mother at a tender age. She says life after her mother's demise has not been easy.

"It was one of the difficult moments in my life, though it was not a surprise, I had learned about the planned marriage from my husband to be after he paid the bride price. My father never informed me, I woke up one day and found the man together with his friends at home when they wanted to take me with them," says Naitoi.

She could not hide her pain as she narrated her ordeal to Xinhua. "I wanted to complete my education but this seemed not to be, as I was in Class Four my father forced me to undergo circumcision, and in keeping with our traditions, once a girl is circumcised, she has to getmarried," she narrates.

Sad is the fact that Naitoi's alleged husband had two wives already. Determined to achieve her education vision despite the challenges, she ran away from her home on the eve of her "wedding day".

"I pleaded with my brother to assist me; he gave me 200 shillings and directed me to a place in Kajiado where I could help. Were it not for him, I would be someone's third wife," she says her eyes beaming with joy.

She boarded a train the same day and arrived in Kajiado where through the area chief's help, she was admitted at the Seventh Day Adventist educational and rehabilitation center, a haven for girls who have been rescued from Female Genital Mutilationand those forced into early marriages.

Although Naitoi had already undergone the cut, she was lucky enough to escape marriage as a third wife and is currently going on with her education at the center and aspiring to achieve her accounting career.

At the center, those who escape the knife undergo an alternative rite of passage.

Her story is similar to that of Kasaiyan Kaperu, 14, who is now in Class Three. She had also been circumcised and set to be married to a 52-year-old man.

"My mother informed me of my father's plan but she stood up with me and promised to help me though my father could hear none of her pleas to let me complete my education first," she says.

"I remember that day I was woken up by screams from my parents' room when my father beat up my mother for opposing the marriage, he chased her away the following day," she says.

With no one to turn to, Kasaiyan ran away from her home and sought refuge at the center.

Having never been to a classroom, teachers were forced to give her special attention. Other children of her age have already sat their Kenya Certificate of PrimaryEducation (KCPE), but she is now in Class Three. She is however determined to pursue her education to the end.

Kajiado educational and rehabilitation center is home to more than 200 girls rescued from FGM and early marriages. The center receives one girl each month.

According to an administrator at the center, even though parents have become more enlightened on the dangers of FGM, more awareness should be carried out if more girls are to be saved.

Perhaps with more information being availed to parents on the dangers posed by FGM, the retrogressive culture could be relegated to the dark past, the administrator told Xinhua.

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Around the globe, on land and in the sea, the story is much the same.Spurred by poverty, population growth, ill-advised policies and greed,humanity is at war with the plants and animals that share the planet.The director of Missouri Botanical Garden predicts that if things goon like this, during the next three decades man will drive an averageof 100 species to extinction every year. Extinction is a part ofevolution but the present rate is at least 1,000 times the pace thathas prevailed since pre-history.

Experts like Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson believe that even massextinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago did not significantlyaffect flowering plants. But these plant species are disappearing now.And people, not comets and volcanoes, are angels of destruction.

In addition to creating a habitable environment, wild species are thesource of products that sustain our lives. More than 40% of allprescription drugs are originally extracted from plants, animals,fungi and micro-organisms. Hidden anonymously in clumps of vegetation,ready to be bulldozed or burned, might be plants with cures for AIDSand cancers. Janzen said: "I know of three plants with the potentialto treat AIDS. One grows in an Australian rain forest, one in Panamaand one in Costa Rica. So far fewer than 1% of the world's 2,65,000plants have been tested for their curative powers."

Researchers exploring magic potions hidden in the forests discoveredthe power of a forest shrub. Reports say that a chimpanzee in theTanzanian forest was severely ill. Almost dying, the ailing chimpseemed to summon her last bit of energy. She dragged herself to aVernonia amygdalina (botanical name) bush which is seldom eaten bychimps. She sucked on its shoots, swallowed the juice and spat out thefibrous leftovers. By the next afternoon, she had perked up visibly.

This was the first time researchers had seen an animal's healthimprove after it ate a plant with known medicinal value. Tanzaniansuse Vernonia to fight parasites and gastrointestinal disorders. Theythink it was no coincidence, because chimps rarely touch the bittershrub. The sick ape was probably not just looking for food, sayprimatologists Michael Huffman and Mohamedi Seifu. Rather, she reachedout for the plant much as a human might do in such situations.

Since this discovery in 1987, researchers have found that chimps arenot the only species that use nature's medicine chest. In recent timethe American Association for the Advancement of Science has beendevoting sessions to "Zoopharmacognosy,"the use of medicinal plants byanimals. Primatologist Kenneth Glander says: "If these work forprimates, then they are potential treatment for humans."

To recognise medically useful plants, animals exploit more than trialand error. Glander finds that howling monkeys in Costa Rica sniff andtaste-test plants to remove poisons from potions. The ability to makethat distinction may be partly a matter of natural selection.

Like other healthy primates, the chimps appear to favour an ounce ofprevention. Huffman reported in the AAAS meeting that chimps ate moreAspilia and Vernonia during the rainy season, when they were moresusceptible to disease than during dry season. There is evidence thatprimates' use of nature's drugs extends to obstetrics.

Primates may not be alone in exploiting plants for more thannutrition. Navajo (a tribe in Tanzania) legend has it that bearstaught the tribe that a species of the "Ligusticum" plant can treatworms, stomach aches and bacterial infections. Ethnobotanist ShawnSigstedt wondered if bears might indeed have taught Navajos to use theshrub.

With scientists and microbiologists scouring the globe to findand gainprofit fromorganisms that could cure some of the world's worstdiseases, some exciting discoveries leading to the cure for malariaappeared to be in sight. Indian microbiologist Deba PrasadChattopadhya, researching in the forest of the Andaman Islands, foundthat the Onge tribes, although surrounded by mosquitoes, did not catchmalaria.

Deb was led into one of the Onge's secret room and shown a potcontaining a bitter medicinal brew. He was given several of the plantsthat went into the potion. Back in the laboratory, he came upon whathe claims as a remarkable discoverytwo of the plants contained feverreducing properties and the third reduced the number of malarialparasites in infected human blood.

Deb soon had a chance to test the Onge's medicine. After severaljungle visits, he was struck with malarial fever. He swallowed juicefrom the extract and was cured in three days, his fever has notresurfaced. He also asked local doctors to experiment with the drug onother patients suffering from other strains of malaria, includingfalciparum, which can be fatal. The brew appeared to be effective oneach of the seven patients treated.

Bio-sleuths are everywhere. Hardy researchers equipped with laptop andbackpacks filled with tools for collecting samples, are busyextracting saliva of vampire bats from Mexico and clinically testingit for a substance that might dissolve blood clots in humans. Insouthern India, botanists are spending time with Irula tribesmen inhopes of determining which berries and plants local medicine men useto cure cobra bites. Taxol, a drug derived from the bark found in therain forest, has been tested as a possible preventive for severaltypes of cancer.

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